Butoh Matuto
Butoh performance
2019SCROLL ↓This research proposes a reterritorialization of butoh based on the symbolic and affective landscapes of the Brazilian countryside, especially the regions bathed by the Paraíba do Sul and Paraitinga rivers. By conceiving a "country butoh", we explore the possibility of a body that is inscribed not only in space, but in collective memory, in religious syncretism and in the cosmogony of land and water.
Butoh performance — 2019
Butoh, as a body language originating in post-war Japan, is marked by a deep listening to time, death, decomposition and presence. When transplanted to the depths of Brazil — where the country folk, the riverside dwellers and the backlands coexist with hybrid and ancestral religious practices —, butoh acquires its own contours. This dancing country body approaches the land not only as an aesthetic or metaphorical element, but as an ontological substrate of existence. Here, the ground is territory, food, sacred and also a threat, especially in the face of the recurrent flooding of the rivers.
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